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Retreating Quotations

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Quote Left Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree. Quote Right
Quote Left I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating. Quote Right
Quote Left I am not retreating, I am advancing in a different direction. Quote Right
Quote Left Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit. Quote Right
Quote Left And now, dear sister, I must leave this house or the retreating army will make me a prisoner in it by filling up the road I am directed to take. Quote Right
Quote Left We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction. Quote Right
Quote Left Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. Quote Right
Quote Left My centre is giving way, my right is retreating, situation excellent, I am attacking . Quote Right
Quote Left Our art is a way of being dazzled by truth: the light on the grotesquely grimacing retreating face is true, and nothing else. Quote Right

Member Quotes About Retreating

Quote Left The world can seem a hard enclosure...love bravely poking its tender heart out...sniffing the air~ before retreating. Quote Right
Quote Left She spoke and her words were like a ringing echo dying or like smoke rising and drifting while the earth below is spinning. She awoke with a cry from a dream that had no ending, without hope or strength to rise, into hopelessness descending. And an ache in her heart toward that dream, retreating, left a wake of small waves in circles never completing. ('Circe' by Michael R. Burch) Quote Right

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